whats your skin care/make up routine?
 

Just wondered what everyone does and what products they use.

I am not loyal to any brands so mine changes depending on what money i have and what i fancy but heres my current routine.

I clean my face with my new clinique 3 step stuff.

use my no 7 beauty serum

Skin 79 BB cream.

any consellor if needed

do my eyeshadow (complete variety of makes)

cover face in collection 2000 loose powder

curl my lashes

add maybelline black falsies mascara.

Use hair straighteners to add volume, scrunch with lee stafford texture paste and hairspray.


Also does anyone have any recommendations for under eye bag cover?

Wash hands with hand wash. Splash water in face. Tie hair back.

That's literally it.

I'm an actual skank.

In the morning:
- Scrub face with exfoliating gloves and body shop body polish and a daily exfoliating face scrub.
- moistorize using Clean and Clear.
- use Body Shop Toner.
- Use witch Primer.
- Put on Body Shop Foundation.
- Apply any eyeshadows.
- Apply eyeliner with a flick (either Collection 2000 liquid liner or MUA gel liner)
- Curl lashes and apply Mascara (either Body Shop or Rimmel)
- Powder in brows using a light Body Shop eyeshadow to shape and define brows.
- Apply any lipstick.

In the evenings:
- Remove makeup using Simple face wipes and we make up remover.
- Tone.
- Moisterizer
- Apply face mask if wanted.

In the morning I just let the shower/hair wash do things for me!

Then before bed, Tesco simple cleanser and then cucumber toner. That's it. And a witch hazel stick for the perimenopausal zits!

Not a skank, I do this too :P

lol not a skank, i have just gradually made mine more and more complicated,

i just wondered what products people used :)
and what under eye fixes people might have

I forgot to put I use Collection2000 concealer under my eyes and on any redness and/or blemishes I have. It's the best drug store concealer I've found (I haven't tried any high end makeup ones as of yet so can't compare!)

Pretty much this!
I put savlon on spots when they appear.

I splash my face with water when I'm in the shower.
Then before going out I put on a bit of blusher, which i suspect is Tesco's Own, or a similar brand, because I am prettttty pasty!
That's all.
Sometimes if I'm going out of an evening (which is almost never) I put more make up on like eyeliner, eyeshadow and lip gloss, but I never bother to clean it off...

you are foul.

I don't even know why I'm commenting here, I literally do NOTHING! Hence my skin is skanky and I'm not especially aesthetically pleasing :'(

Occasionally Jodie attacks me with face cream and/or LeClaire gives me spot cream as a subtle hint...

just why when i have asked a perfectly reasonably question do you have to be such a knob?

sorry posted at the same time, not you Narcissa

I'm assuming you don't me, though my skincare routine does leave much to be desired...

if you say so, moving on...

any answers for the under eye bag problems?

cold green tea tea bags or cold cucumber slices.

oh, or if you put two spoons in the fridge and then rest them under your eyes.

i had to try a few concealers until i found a really good one. i forget whats its called but it had green pigments in it.. you can get green pigmented foundation etc too, it counters any red in your skin.

ive got an eye mask i just never use it, it involves closing my eyes and sitting still

i think to be honest its just i like playing with products rather than anything else, i only started wearing make up regularly about 5 years back and i'll be 31 on monday

i have really dry hands in the winter, i find the body shop hemp hand cream is brilliant for them and although its fairly pricey it does last forever

I have some good stuff for under eye bags [which I get really badly]. I forget what it's called, will look when I get home.

oh yes please that would be great.

and so far on this thread i'm the only one who uses anything!

I use a cleanser and toner. :)

In ode to this thread today I washed my face with pink grapefruit scrub AND moisturised with body shop vitamin e!

ohhh, doesn't it feel great though? i think sometimes its one of those things that just make you feel great about yourself,

also love the pink grapefruit scrub, had that a few times (i'm loyal to no brand)

Mornings:

. Wash my face with warm water mixed with aqeous cream (for my stupidly dry skin)
. Dry and apply aqeous cream as a moisturiser
. Dab/massage on a very light layer of Collection 2000 Matte & Minerals foundation
. Apply Collection 2000 concealer on any particularly angry spots
. Mist my face with Lush Eau De Roma Toner Water
. Apply lip balm/chapstick in the winter

Nighttime:

. (I remove make-up straight after going out)
. Wash and gently scrub my face with Lush Let The Good Times Roll cleanser
. Apply perscription Duac acne cream
. Take perscription acne medication

damn teenage spots & dry old-lady skin. I highly recommend the cleanser I listed though! It's divine!

Banish the Bags Eye Cream by Dirty Works. I got it in a big Sainsburys.

You must have missed my post on the previous page then....! I use quite a bit an posted the full list.

no, sorry i did read it, it just seemed like there were an awful lot of people at the other end of the spectrum, i may have exaggerated a bit when i said i was the only one

I can't stand wearing make up and the only thing I do to my skin is disinfect it with antibacterial stuff and sometimes put dermatitis cream on it.

I rarely wear make up and I dont use anything on my skin except occasionally put hand cream on my hands. So I dont really have an skin care regime.

-Wash face while in the shower, probably with shower gel.
-dry face
-if skin is dry, moisturise. If not, that's it.

Ah okay (: I'm quite surprised at the responses! I thought there was a lot o make up fans here!

Panda, you are 12.

And spunks all over his face.

*chortle*

Pretty much.

I wash my face with clean and clear cleanser
Put on Simple moisturizer
Put on either maybelline fit me foundation or bare minerals foundation depending on how much coverage I need.
Put maybelline fit me concealer on any blemishes and on the redness on my cheeks.
Put maybelline age rewind dark circle eraser under my eyes, and on my lids since my eye lids are practically see through and you can see my veins (this stuff is supposed to treat and conceal dark circles, although since I don't wear make up every day I don't know how well it really works on treating them, I haven't noticed any difference, but it conceals them pretty well). If I don't need a lot of coverage or if i want to look like i'm not wearing foundation I'll use bare minerals well rested under my eyes, and also to cover any blemishes (since i ran out of their regular concealer and haven't gotten around to buying more). This works really well for covering up dark circles.
I then use the maybelline fit me powder all over my face.
I'll then apply eyeshadow of whatever brand I feel like (I have a ridiculous amount of eyeshadow)
and then covergirl eyeliner just on my waterline (the twisty up kind).
then mascara. i'm currently using loreal voluminous false fiber lashes which i absolutely hate and should have just taken back to the store but i was too lazy and so now i just use it because i feel wasteful just throwing it away.
I then apply blush usually a peachy pink covergirl blush
and then nivea chapstick.
at night i use a baby wipe to wipe off most of my make up.
wash face with clean and clear wash
use neutrogena eye make up remover to take off any left over eye make up
and that's it.

- Use House of Holland face scrub
- Wipe face with Simple wipes.
- Use tea tree facial cleanser
- Add Rimmel 24hr foundation
-Dab Rimmel face powder
- Bourjois Liner Pinceau liquid liner
-Rimmel Scandaleyes mascara
- Rimmel blusher
- Kate Moss lipstick.

Boom.

I think I used to put way too much stuff on my face and it ended up being irritated all of the time. Also I have quite oily skin and I switched to using a cleanser and moisturiser - I don't think the cleanser properly washed my skin or removed enough. It seemed quite pore-clogging when I looked at the label.

Anyway: now I use simple soap and eucerin moisturiser. The simple soap is just with a splash of tepid water. My skin seems better now.

I wash my face with some exfoliating stuff, occasionally use mousturizer (but only after a shave really [yes I have to do that now]), and smother my entire face in some nasty coal tar stuff in a futile attempt to keep the psoriasis at bay for a little while.

Used to have a pretty full on one, can't be bothered now so wash my face in the shower and don't use much makeup, occasionally go all out with face masks and the like

Wash in the shower in the morning with

- Garnier Pure 3in1
- Every third day I wash my face with Clean&Clear In Shower Scrub

Get out of shower

- Nivea Pure & Natural Cleanser toner
- Nivea Visage Young Control Shine! Mattifying Gel Cream
- Any makeup I may require.

At night I give my face a wipe with Swisspers Spa Facial wipes.
- If I have been on placement I usually wash quickly with the Garnier again in case I have other people on my face. =)